Thread: Early Christmas Present

The Chinese certainly have not yet mastered designing and writing readable intuitive operators manuals for all these new fangled optics.

And a number of supposed You Tube 'experts' have no clue how to put together a video training package.

But a few are very good. You just have to trawl a lot of channels to find the good ones.

Thar, got a feeling the animals in your area are in a lot of trouble!

Good luck with that Tahr.lols

Sighted the Arken in today. Reasonably straight forward once I sorted that x is across and y is uppy downy. It's mounted on my Tikka and sighted it in for 77grn Sierra TMK. Easy enough to get tiny groups of under .5moa. Ended up with it 1.5" high at 100yds and dead on at 200 as I wanted.

Had a good scan around and magpies at 530 yards were clear at 20x and shootable (if I was able to hit them).

Christmas period task is to get my lads to help me sort the ballistic program (which adjusts the reticle through the range finder) and I will be away. In the mean time I can use the Moa reticle.

This is an excellent little gadget. Pests be afraid.

More on the Arken.
I gave it a spin and shot 3 deer.

By just having it on standby and powering up when I needed it in 6 hours I used hardly any battery. When in standby it takes a millisecond to come on. It takes about 3 seconds from right off.

It's very bright and clear in the field - like looking at a very good TV screen. Without putting the IR on you get about an hours extra hunting after dusk, and I doubt you would need the IR in good moonlight.

For the couple of deer I shot in the daylight it was no problem lining them up and focussing the thing. I shot the first deer at 20 power and the second now I think about it was probably back on 5 x.

I used the IR on a deer at about 250 yards. At the time I thought that would be about as far as you could use it but today I found that you can adjust the beam and I had it adjusted for close so I anticipate that it will be good for over 300 yards. I clicked the magnification up for the deer I shot in the IR and I might have been as high as 20x. Bowled it no trouble anyway.

This thing is hard to fault.
I haven't loaded the ballistics into it yet and for some reason the range finder wouldn't work when I was hunting. Bound to be some setting that Ive got wrong. Once Ive mastered the tech side its going to be a damn handy thing for the private land pest stuff I do.

I like it.